Metallic tie and rail-fastener.



No. 853,869. I f PATENTED 1113141907.

. w. F. DUEL-ER.

METALLIC TIE AND RAIL FASTBNER.

APPLIOATION IILED FEB, 16, 1907.

WITNESSES: I 2194 m- N OR C). s ur/g g t I I l v l 7; W

1m: NORRIS PETERS :0, WASHINGTON, n. c,

' of nuts, bolts and spikes upon a tie, also to dispensewith the ordinary siding at Allegheny,

UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE. WILLIAM F. DURLEITTIFY, PENNSYLVANIA. METALLIC TIE AND RAIL-FASTENER- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. DURLER, a citizen of the United States of America, re-

gheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Ties and Rail-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein ings.

This invention relates rai fasteners, and the employed for retaining rails thereon.

My invention aims to dispense with the use or fastening rails bility and strength. a To this end, I have devised a tie of the I-beam construction and in connection with the tie I em loy fasteners which are adjustably mounted upon the tie and held in place by wedges.

The detail construction of my improved metallic tie and rail fastener will be hereinafter more fully described and then" specifically pointed out in the appended claims, and referring to the drawing forming part of this specification, like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the metallic tie, illustrating rails secured thereon by my improved fasteners, and Fig. 2 is a perspective View of one of the fasteners. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a wedge used in connection with the fastener.

To put my invention into practice, I construct my improved metallic tie of a beam of the I-beam construction, said beam having base flanges 1, a web 2 adapted to support the rails 5.

consisting of sleeves 6 adapted to slide upon outer ends or corners bent upwardly, as at 8, 1 the I-beam in the county of Alleto the accompanying drawsaid sleeves 1n a fixed position.

I to provide prongs adapted to engage the under face of i the top flanges 3. The sleeves 6 are provided with angular extensions 9 adapted to lie over the base flanges 4 of the rails 5 and retain said rails in position.

In connection with the sleeves 6, I employ wedge shaped plates 10, said plates being driven into the ends of said sleeves to hold The plates are formed with flanges 11, whereby they can be easily removed from the fasteners, when the rails need renewing. The sleeves are therefore necessarily made of a greater depth than the top flanges 3, especially at their outer ends, whereby the wedge shaped plates can be inserted in the sleeve on the top of the flanges 3 and then driven inwardly. The wedging action of the plates 10, causes the prongs 8 to engage in the under faces of the top flanges 3 and firmly hold the sleeves 7c in a fixed position, whereby a rail mounted between two of said sleeves cannot become laterally or vertically displaced.

From the foregoing description it will be observed thatmy im roved fastener is applicable to the standar metallic tie at present used and indevising my improved fastener, I have dispensed with the cutting and shearing of the metallic ties and the use of nuts and bolts for securing the fasteners thereto.

It is obvious that such chan es in the size, proportion and minor details 0% construction, as are permissible by the appended claims, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

What I claim and desire to secure by Let- .ters Patent, is

the lnwardly PIOJGCtHlg flanges of sand 2. The combination with rails, and a tie of construction for supporting said IOC rails, of fasteners slidably mounted upon said In testimony whereof I aflix my signature tie and having extensions adapted to engage in the presence of two Witnesses. said rails, prongs car ried by said sleeves and adapted to engage in said tie, and wedge WILLIAM DURLER' 5 shaped plates driven into said sleeves for Witnesses:

holding said sleeves in a fixed position upon F. O. MGCLEARY,

said tie.

MAX H. SROLOVITZ. 

